What’s your best photo?

Choosing your top photo can be a tricky task. For the ShutterUp Online project, young photographers across Victoria have been asked to submit three of their best images. How would you decide?

Take a look at the photos creative young snappers across Victoria are uploading to ABC Open’sShutterUp Online project. From landscapes, portraits of mates, bands playing live, travel shots and more, these young photographers are busy documenting their world.

17-year-old Ballarat photographer Finn Brass also has an impressive body of work (check out his images here) and he managed to whittle his selection down to these three.

Thanks to digital technology, the number of photos we can take and store is constantly expanding. So with all this extra data, how do you possibly go about selecting your best shots?

Is it that shot that captured a significant moment in your life? Or the photo you took by accident that looks amazing, even though you don’t know why? Or is it the one that as you framed the shot and pressed the shutter, you knew it was going to be a winner?

Photo management programs are a big help and let you do a quick scan of your work. I recently went through an archive of my work and this shot stood out(It was taken for an ABC Open blog I wrote
about creativity). I think what appeals
to me is the way it sits within the frame. But is it my best photo? I think I’d
need a few more days to go through the rest of my shots to decide. This one
just jumped out and grabbed me.

Of course you can always ask your friends
and family, but I’m a firm believer in the ethos that you have to love it first
and foremost. No matter what anyone else says.

Maybe you already know which photos are
your best. I think our best work just feels right and it feels like that from
the moment you snap the frame.

If you are aged between 14 and 24, live in
Victoria and want to be part of a youth photo exhibition at the 2011 Ballarat
International Foto Biennale, then check out ABC Open’s ShutterUp Online
project.

If you live in Ballarat, then come along to
the FREE ShutterUp Online workshop on Thursday July 28th. Check all
the details here.